brown did it in 2010. he voted for the blunt amendment this year and that became a big issue because -- so you even had candidates like scott brown and tommy thompson who could not be the strong candidates they should have been, and that has everything to do with the direction the republican party chose to go. >> here is the thing i think is -- i totally agree with all of that. and this is the thing i don't understand. this is not the first election cycle in which we have seen this dynamic at work. they had a dress rehearsal of how this was going to go in 2010, when they had sharron angle and christine o'donnell and lost all of those senate seats they should have won. why wasn't there any sort of effect on the republican -- the internal processes in the republican party, that made them not want to make that mistake again? >> they won 60-something house seats, all these governorships, all these state legislatures, they were able to re-draw congressional maps, they were able to do scott walker in wisconsin,